Group Members

 • Group Leader

 • PostDocs & Staff

    – Yolande Berta
    – Yong Ding
    – Yong Qin
    – Rusen Yang
    – Jinhui Song
    – Jun Zhou
    – Jung-il Hong
    – Yaguang Wei
    – Youfan Hu
    – Yeh Ping-Hung

 • Graduate Students

    – Wenjie Mai
    – Ben Weintraub
    – Melanie Kirkham
    – Yifan Gao
    – Sheng Xu
    – Cheng Li
    – Calvin Chen Xu
    – Peng Fei
    – Yudong Gu
    – Zhou Li
    – Xiaomei Zhang
    – Wenzhuo Wu
    – Guang Zhu
    – Ming-Yen Lu

 • Memories

 • Prior Members

Biosketch

• Adjunct Faculty, Agnes Scott College, Department of Chemistry, Atlanta, GA (Fall 2009-present).
• Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Energy & Environmental Research Laboratory, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Summer 2008.
• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, CA, 2001.
• Chemistry Research Intern, Invitrogen Corp., San Diego, CA, June – Aug 1998.

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Research Area

• Rational synthesis of one-dimensional nanomaterials via bottom up methodologies
• Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cell fabrication and electrical characterization

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Publications

1. "Optical Fiber/Nanowire Hybrid Structures for Efficient Three-Dimensional Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells " Benjamin Weintraub, Yaguang Wei, and Zhong Lin Wang, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 1-6.Online supporting Matereials
2. "Density-controlled, solution-based growth of ZnO nanorod arrays via layer-by-layer polymer thin films for enhanced field emission ", B.Weintraub S. Chang, S. Singamaneni, W.H. Han, Y.J. Choi, J. Bae, M. Kirkham, V.V. Tsukruk, Y. Deng, Nanotechnology , 19 (2008) 435302.
3. "Density-controlled growth of aligned ZnO nanowire arrays by seedless chemical approach on smooth surfaces",S. Xu, C.S. Lao, B.Weintraub and Z.L. Wang Journal of Materials Research, 2008 (23) 2072.
4. "Bridged ZnO nanowires across trenched electrodes", P.X. Gao, J. Liu, B.A. Buchine, B. Weintraub, Z.L. Wang and J.L. LeeAppl. Phys. Lett., 91 (2007) 142108.
5. ""Position-Controlled Seedless Growth of ZnO Nanorod Arrays on a Polymer Substrate via Wet Chemical Synthesis" B. Weintraub, Y.L. Deng and Z.L. Wang J. Phys. Chem. C, 111 (28), 10162 -10165, 2007

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Research Highlights

• Low temperature wet chemical synthesis techniques
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• Focused Ion Beam (FIB)
• Electron beam lithography
• Thin film deposition (thermal evaporation, sputtering)
Self-assembled monolayer (SAM) formation

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Honors & Awards

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